[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#790264: acpi supported on ARM64 as of Linux 4.1

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> [2015-09-01 11:03]:
> > Package: acpi-support
> > ...
> > ACPI is supported on some ARM64 platforms as of Linux kernel
> > version 4.1 (see <https://lwn.net/Articles/642039/>).  Maybe
> > it's time to enable this package to build on arm64, too.  I'm
> > not sure if it requires any upstream changes for ARM64.
> 
> acpi-support itself is architecture all anyway, so no need there. The only
> architecture dependant package would be acpi-fakekey. Is there a need for it
> on ARM at all? If the acpi implementation on ARM just works, we won't need it
> I guess.

I'm not sure.  Betty, do you know ifacpi-fakekey might be useful on
arm64?

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Martin Michlmayr
Linux for HP Helion, Hewlett-Packard